Ontario’s Plan for Engine Governors Bad for U.S., Execs Say

f Ontario, Canada, were to adopt a policy to require drivers of heavy-duty trucks that operate in the province to use engine governors to limit speeds, it would create an economic disadvantage for U.S. carriers involved in cross-border trucking, industry officials said.

The Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, which has been reviewing the proposal first introduced in July by the Ontario Trucking Association, is expected to make a decision this month, a spokesman said.

U.S. carriers who haul freight into Ontario “will have to pay a repair shop to have the [governor] microchip recalibrated to comply with the rule and have the chip recalibrated again when they cross back into the United States so they can drive the allowed speed limit on roads here,” Bill Joyce, president of the New York State Motor Truck Association, told Transport Topics.